Privacy Policy

Slacker Studio

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Slacker Studio products and services are provided by Slacker Radio Inc. ("Slacker", "us", "we" or "our"). Slacker, Inc. ("Slacker") recognizes that its users value their privacy and we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains our privacy practices, including what types of Personal Information we collect from you and how we may use it, our rights to share and disclose such information with other entities and how you can review and modify information that you provide to us and your preferences regarding our use and disclosure of such information.

This Policy applies to all Personal Information collected during any written, electronic, and oral communications or collected online (collectively, the "Services"), which include:

1. ACCEPTANCE

Before using our Services, please carefully read our Terms of Use Agreement, which you can view here: https://studio.slacker.com/terms ("Terms of Use"), and this Policy, which is part of the Terms of Use. Any capitalized terms that are not defined in this Policy shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use. Our Terms of Use and this Policy apply regardless of the Device you use to access the Services and whether you are accessing the Services as a registered User or not.

By using the Services, you accept and agree to our Terms of Use, including the provisions in this Policy. If you do not agree with our Policy and Terms of Use, please do not participate in the Services or any features, activities or services offered through the Services. This Policy and the Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect, even if your use of the Services or any particular service, feature, function or promotional activity offered through the Services terminates, expires, ceases, is suspended or deactivated for any reason.

2. CHANGES TO THE POLICY

From time to time we may modify this Policy to reflect industry initiatives, third-party requirements, changes in the law or our how we process Personal Information. Such modifications shall be effective upon posting. Your continued use of the Services after we post a revised Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Policy. It is therefore important that you review this Policy regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes. Whenever material changes to this Policy are made, we will provide you with notice before the modifications are effective, such as by posting a notice on our Site or sending a message to the email address associated with your account. The effective date of the Policy is the date indicated at the top of the Policy. By continuing to access or use the Services after changes to this Policy become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Policy. If any changes are unacceptable to you, you may stop using our Services.

We also may provide additional "just-in-time" disclosures or additional information about the data collection, use and sharing practices of specific Services. Such notices may supplement or clarify our privacy practices or may provide you with additional choices about how we process your Personal Information.

3. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

This Policy governs only the Personal Information collected by us from you and provided to us by Third-Party Platforms in connection with your use of our Services. When we use the term "Personal Information" we mean any information that we collect on or in connection with the Services that relates to you, identifies you personally or could be used to identify you, such as your full name, address, email, telephone number, or your music preferences.

We may combine your Personal Information with other information we collect about you from other sources, such as information you have provided to third parties, including, but not limited to, our affiliated companies, marketing companies or Advertisers, and, if we do so, our use of the resulting combined Personal Information will be subject to this Policy.

The types of Personal Information that we may collect about you are:

4. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies, embedded scripts, and other similar tracking technologies ("Tracking Technologies") to collect additional Personal Information automatically as you interact with the Services and to personalize your experience with our Services.

5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We will only use your Personal Information as described in this Policy or as disclosed to you prior to such processing taking place. The purposes for which we may use your Personal Information include:

6. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share, disclose and/or sell your Personal Information with the following entities:

7. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

As described below, we provide you with the ability to access, correct, delete and limit our usage of your Personal Information.

8. NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This section applies only to California residents. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"). Below is a summary for the last twelve (12) months of the Personal Information categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140 (o)), that we collect, the reason we collect the Personal Information, where we obtain the Personal Information, and the categories of third parties that we may share the Personal Information.

We generally collect the following categories of Personal Information about your when you use our Services:

We generally do not collect protected classifications about our users, biometric information, professional or employment-related information, or education-related information. For more information about the Personal Information we collect and how we collect it, please refer to sections 3 and 4 above.

We collect your Personal Information for various business purposes as described in section 5, How We Use Your Information. The CCPA defines a "business purpose" as the use of Personal Information for the business's operational purposes, or other notified purposes, provided the use of Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the operational purpose for which the Personal Information was collected or another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected. The following activities are considered "business purposes" under the CCPA: auditing related to a current interaction with the consumer and concurrent transactions, and auditing compliance with laws and other standards; detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity; performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, verifying customer information; repairing errors that impair existing intended functionality; Internal research for technological development; verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of, and improving, upgrading, or enhancing, a service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by the company.

The categories of third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information are listed above in section 6, Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information.

Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have rights in relation to your Personal Information; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, Slacker, Inc. cannot disclose specific pieces of Personal Information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the Personal Information, your account with us or the security of our network systems.

To assert your right to know or your right to delete your Personal Information, please contact us at privacy@slacker.com. To verify your identity, we may ask you to verify Personal Information we already have on file for you. If we cannot verify your identity from the information we have on file, we may request additional information from you, which we will only use to verify your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.

Right to Opt-Out of Selling. As described in the Policy, in certain situations we may share your Personal Information with our partners, third parties or affiliates for our marketing or other purposes. To the extent such sharing is considered a "sale" under the CCPA, as a California resident you have the right to opt-out of such sharing. If you would like us to no longer share your Personal Information in this way, please contact us at privacy@slacker.com. If you opt-out, we may be unable to offer you some of our Services which require sharing of Personal Information.

Other Rights
If you are a California resident, you can control whether your Personal Information is used by third parties (such as Advertisers) for their direct marketing purposes by exercising your opt-out (which we may sometimes refer to as "unsubscribe") or opt-in rights by contacting us using the details below. Therefore, pursuant to the California law, we are not required to disclose Personal Information categories that we disclosed about you to the third parties and a list of third parties that received your Personal Information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.

If you are a California resident and wish to request information about how to exercise your opt-out or opt-in rights, please send a request by email to privacy@slacker.com or by postal mail to Slacker, Inc., http://studio.slacker.com, c/o Privacy Administrator, 269 South Beverly Drive, Suite #1450, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, Attn: Your California Privacy Rights. All requests must be labeled "Your California Privacy Rights" on the email subject line or envelope or post card. For all requests, please clearly state that the request is related to "Your California Privacy Rights", include your name, street address, city, state, zip code and email (your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via email) and indicate your preference on how our response to your request should be sent (email or postal mail). We will not accept requests via the telephone or by fax. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.

In addition, a business subject to California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 must allow California residents under age 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted. Please send your request to privacy@slacker.com. Your request should include a detailed description of the specific content or information to be removed. Please be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

9. DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16 without appropriate parental notice and consent. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.

10. SECURITY

While no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information. However, regardless of our efforts and the Device you use to access the Services, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications over an unsecured transmission. We also limit access to the Services by our own employees, contractors, Service Providers and those individuals who are authorized for the proper handling of such information. We request that our third-party contractors and Service Providers follow similar standards of security and confidentiality. We use the following controls to protect your Personal Information:

Although we do take (and require third parties that we work with to take) security precautions regarding your Personal Information, due to the open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any of your Personal Information stored on our servers, or transmitted to or from a user, will be free from unauthorized access. By using our Services, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.

11. WHERE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS PROCESSED

We may process Personal Information on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. We are headquartered in and process Personal Information in the United States. If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, please note that by using our Services you are agreeing to the transfer of your Personal Information to the United States to us for processing to provide our Services. We will use our best efforts to ensure your Personal Information is treated securely in accordance with this Privacy Policy, but if you do not agree with our Terms and the conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, you should cease using our Services.

12. INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS AND SERVICES

The Services may be linked to, rely on and be integrated with websites, applications, interfaces, services and platforms operated by other companies, including Third-Party Services. The Services may also feature advertisements from these companies. Slacker, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites, applications, interfaces, services and platforms operated by third parties that are linked to, rely on and/or integrated with the Services or for the privacy practices of third party advertising companies. Once you leave these Services via a link, access a third-party service or click on an advertisement, you should check applicable privacy policies to determine, among other things, how related companies process Personal Information they may collect about you. This Policy applies solely to information collected by Slacker, Inc.

13. CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or any of the terms or conditions of this Policy, please feel free to contact us at: privacy@slacker.com; or by mail at Slacker, Inc. Attn: Privacy Matters, 269 South Beverly Drive, Suite #1450, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

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